Bay-chested Warbling Finch (Castanozoster thoracicus) | Photos and ID

LCLeast ConcernEndemicInvertebrates

ForestTiny · 12 g

Bay-chested Warbling Finch (Castanozoster thoracicus), photo 2 — Photo: (c) vinicius_s_domingues, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Bay-chested Warbling Finch (Castanozoster thoracicus), photo 3 — Photo: (c) Jan Ebr & Ivana Ebrová, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Bay-chested Warbling Finch (Castanozoster thoracicus), photo 4 — Photo: (c) Dan Riley, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Bay-chested Warbling Finch (Castanozoster thoracicus), photo 5 — Photo: (c) filipeprates, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Bay-chested Warbling Finch (Castanozoster thoracicus), photo 6 — Photo: (c) filipeprates, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Bay-chested Warbling Finch (Castanozoster thoracicus), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Tom Field, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Bay-chested Warbling Finch (Castanozoster thoracicus), photo 8 — Photo: (c) filipeprates, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Bay-chested Warbling Finch (Castanozoster thoracicus), photo 9 — Photo: (c) yongestation, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Bay-chested Warbling Finch (Castanozoster thoracicus), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Bruno Luka de Souza Bambirra Silveira, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

ID tip

The bay-chested warbling finch is a rather dainty, warbler-like finch, measuring 13.5 cm long on average and with an average weight of 11–12.8 g. Males have gray upperparts, getting progressively browner from the head to the tail. The grayish upper-wing displays a white flash when the wings are closed, created by the white edges and bases of the outer primaries. The anterior edge of the wings is also white due to the white marginal coverts. The throat, cheek, and underparts are also white, interrupted by a bright reddish-brown breast-band stretching along the sides to the flanks.

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When to see the Bay-chested Warbling Finch

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Bay-chested Warbling Finch

Regular range

The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Brazil

About the Bay-chested Warbling Finch

The bay-chested warbling finch is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is endemic to southeastern Brazil. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

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Easily confused with

Pearly-bellied SeedeaterSporophila pileataThe pearly–bellied seedeater is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.

Azure-rumped TanagerPoecilostreptus cabanisiIts plumage is mostly pale blue, with a purplish-blue crown, dark lores and lower auriculars, and distinctive dark spots across the chest. Fulvous-headed TanagerThlypopsis fulvicepsThe fulvous-headed tanager is a small tanager; on average, it is 12 cm (4.7 in) long and weighs 11–13 g (0.4–0.5 oz).

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